the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.
a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
Also called ghost im·age[gohst-im-ij] /ˈgoʊst ˌɪm ɪdʒ/ .Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.
v. 有主动词 verb
to ghostwrite.
to haunt.
Engraving. to lighten the background of before engraving.
(5)
Informal. to suddenly end all contact with without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.to leave suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.
Digital Technology. to remove from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
v. 无主动词 verb
to ghostwrite.
to go about or move like a ghost.
to move when there is no perceptible wind.
(6)
to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted.to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.
Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
adj. 形容词 adjective
fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company.